Inking-pad for rubber and other stamps.



No. 848,063. PATENTED MAR. 26, 1907. F. AI INKING PAD FOR RUBBER A'N'DYOTHBR STAMPS.

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INKING-PAD FOR RUBBER AND OTHER STAMPS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 26, 1907.

Application filed April 6, 1906. Serial No. 310,847.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, FELIX ALEXANDER SOMMER, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at 115 Milford road, Twickenham, in the county of Middlesex, England, agent, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in or Relating to Inking-Pads for Rubber and other Stamps, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to inking-pads, by the use of which rubber and other stamps may be inked in different colors at one and the same time, the object being to produce an inking-pad made so as to prevent the colors from mixing.

In devices of the kind referred to as hitherto made the inking-pad has been made in sections, each remova ly secured in a separate compartment formed by'ribs on a baselate. Such devices, besides being somewhat expensive to make, are troublesome in use.

According to this invention I divide the inking-pad into straight or curved. sections to correspond with the design on the stamp by cutting, impressing, burning, or otherwise partially removing the material therefrom, and I use in conjunction therewith a device made of metal or other plates or strips adapted to fit the incisions made in the pad so as to provide an effectual barrier, separating the adjacent sections of the pad, which can then be separately linked without danger of the colors mixing.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of an inking-pad made according to my invention. Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a plan of the device to be used with the pad shown in Fig. 1, and Fig. 4 is a section on the line 4 4 of Fig. 3.

In the drawings, A is a wood or metal base or frame onto which the inking-pad B is secured in the usual way.

6 6 &c., represent the incisions dividing the pad into the separate sections B B B &c. In the example shown the pad is divided into three sections; but it may be divided into two sections or into more than three, and the divisions may be oval, as shown, round, straight, or any other shape corresponding to the design on the stamp.

In conjunction with a pad having incisions I therein of the kind shown in Figs. 1 and 2 I use the device shown in Figs. 3 and 4. I his device is a frame consisting of a metal plate or plates or strips C C, shaped to fit the incisions b 12 &c., in the pad, and wherenecessary said strips 0 C are connected together by bridge-pieces C and they are provided with lateral projections C, which rest on the edges A of the padfran1e, so as to keep the inking device in proper position while the pad is being inked. When the frame constituted by the strips 0 C and bridge-pieces is placed in position on, the pad, ink can be applied to the pad upon either side of the metal plate or plates or strips C C without danger of the colors touching and mixing together, and,

furthermore, said frame, by removably fit ting within the incisions, is adapted to be removed from the latter before a stamp is applied to the pad, whereby said stamp Will make contact with the pad only.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A stamp-inking pad divided into sections by incisions therein, in combination with a frame adapted to removably fit within the incisions in the inking-pad so as to keep the sections of the pad separate during the inking and also adapted to be removed from the incisions before a stamp is applied to the pad whereby said stamp will make contact with the pad only, substantially as described.

2. A sta1npinking pad secured to a base and divided mto sect-lens by in CISIOIlS therein, 1n combinatmn with a frame formed of strips secured together and adapted to removably fit within the incisions in the inking-pad so as to keep the sections of the pad separate during inking and also adapted to be removed from the incisions before a stamp is applied to the pad whereby said stamp willmake contact with the pad only, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, in presence of two subscribing witnesses, this 27th day of March, 1906.

FELIX ALEXANDER SOMMER. Witnesses:

ALFRED NUTTING, T. W. LEDDER. 

